Home health provider LHC Group Inc. said Monday it bought assets to operate hospice agencies in Alabama and Louisiana for an undisclosed amount.The company bought assets from Hospice Complete for four Alabama-based hospice agencies that cover 22 counties and generate annual revenue of about...

Drug developer Labopharm Inc. (TSX:DDS) says it has received more than US$5 million in royalty payments from Purdue Pharma Products for sales of its Ryzolt pain treatment.The Quebec-based company said Monday that it expects a US$4.8-million special royalty payment from Purdue, as well as a...

(Penn State) Hydrocephalus in Ugandan children and other developing countries is seasonal, linked to farm animals and in part, caused by previous bacterial infection, according to an international team of researchers from Uganda and the United States, who believe that the best...

At the RTI 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging Conference in Burlingame CA Subramanian Iyer, IBM Fellow and Douglas Yu, Sr Director of Interconnect and Packaging for TSMC offered their thoughts on the coming era of 3D IC.

Lincare Holdings Inc., which provides home delivery of oxygen and respiratory therapies, said Monday its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of 20 cents per share.The dividend is payable on Jan. 28 to stockholders of record as of Jan. 14.

DETROIT, Jan. 3, 2011 /- Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. (NYSE Amex: CPD ) announced that based on remediation efforts to date, it does not expect to commence the manufacture and distribution of products from its Detroit facility by the end of Caraco's Fiscal Year 2011, ending...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 3, 2011 /- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY ), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that it has been named to the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the premier listing tier for NASDAQ companies. The NASDAQ Global Select Market is designated...

Despite claims by the FDA and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that parallel review could expedite marketing of new devices, industry fears the opposite could happen, depending on how the program is implemented.